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The PEN-plus strategy aims to improve access and care for non-communicable diseases in rural, low income areas and could revolutionise the care of chronic diseases in Africa, write Matshidiso Moeti , Ana Mocumbi , and Gene Bukhman Inequity has always been one of the biggest health concerns in African countries. For decades, we’ve witnessed the tragedy of African people in low income countries dying of severe, chronic non-communicable diseases because they can’t access the care readily available in higher income countries. Fortunately, thanks to a promising new strategy called PEN-Plus, we are on the brink of a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives but only if African countries and the world rise to the occasion. There have been breakthroughs and victories in healthcare and equity on the continent. Increasing access to prevention of malaria in pregnancy, antiretroviral drugs for HIV, and yellow fever vaccinations come to mind.1 In each case, several factors combin

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